Lawrence Lenhart

Lawrence Lenhart's first collection of
essays, The Well-Stocked and Gilded Cage, was published in
August 2016 (Outpost19). The collection’s five core essays on pets—a dog,
a bird, a tortoise, a ferret, and a chameleon—intersect with essays on
childhood spirituality in Myanmar and Nepal, climate change in Bangladesh and
California, and animal conservation in Arizona and Cambodia. Essays in the
collection have received recognition from Best American Essays 2015,
and have won Prairie Schooner's Virginia Faulkner Award for
Excellence in Writing and Terrain's Annual Creative Nonfiction
Award as selected by Scott Russell Sanders. Other writing on sea-level rise,
climate migration, and the endangered black-footed ferret have appeared in
Alaska Quarterly Review, BOAAT, Fourth Genre, Greensboro
Review, Guernica, Gulf Coast, Passages North,
and Western Humanities Review. Lenhart teaches fiction and
creative nonfiction at Northern Arizona University and is the reviews editor
and assistant fiction editor of DIAGRAM.